Police found a 41-year-old man dead outside an apartment building in Ashkelon on Saturday. They later found his wife's body inside the apartment. It is suspected that he strangled her to death and committed suicide by jumping from the window.

MDA paramedics arrived at the scene after receiving a report. They found the man and pronounced him dead. When they went into the man's apartment they found his wife, aged 30, lying motionless on the floor with violence marks on her body.

Earlier on Saturday, a 25-year-old man was found dead outside a building in Beersheba in what police believe to have been a murder.